Waaaah! People I don’t like are talking, so they’re idiots.
Bricker, I know it’s fun to pretend you’re a lawyer on the internet. Lolz for everyone.
But we don’t give a shit about your fantasy, and we don’t give a shit about convoluted legalistic reasoning. Lawyers don’t administer justice, they prevent it, letting the guilty free and the putting the innocent in jail. We see the truth, not just the facts. And the truth is, Tom Delay and the rest of tthe GOP are shitbags. we don’t need a law to tell us the sky is blue. Frankly, if they’re a republican, that’s guilty enough for me.
If you can’t take the heat, why not go elsewhere, hm?
Almost all posts in GD are argumentative, yes, but relatively few are stupid, and it’s a rare bird indeed to find one as idiotic as this one was. My experience of GD is that most posts advance somewhat sound arguments, leavened from time to time with fallacy but most often including a basic argument. Obviously, your mileage varies.
So … I have chosen to pretend to be a really crappy person?
You’re right. Truth is, I’m a test pilot and volunteer search-and-rescue medic, who flies in medicine to stranded children in the wilds. Weekends I work at a rescue shelter for cats.
We’re still waiting for you to admit that you’ve dispensed a whole sewer-full of shitty arguments on the subject of Bill Bennett, hypocritical author of “The Book Of Virtues” who blew a ton of money gambling. That example hit a little too close to home for our Bricker, who can dissemble (and concern troll) with the best of them.
And I continue to aver that the word hypocritical has a meaning: “a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings.” And Bennett never stated any belief of feeling about being against gambling. You want to take the word and meld it to mean “a general moral scold,” so that anything that ANYONE thinks is a sin, done by the scold, is hypocritical. That’s not the way the word works, or the world, for that matter. Bennett wrote a whole book, hundreds of pages, in which he lists things people shouldn’t do. Gambling wasn’t one of those things. Bennett gave speeches, hundreds of hours’ worth, in which he inveighed against poor behavior; gambling wasn’t one of those behaviors.
And yet you call him hypocritical and claim I’M the one with a bad argument?
What an idiot.
Speaking of idiocy, any comments on the subject of the thread, by the way? You gonna hang together for the honor of idiots and defend Whack-a-Mole’s argument that was the subject of the thread?
To be fair, some of the more rational folks on the left have agreed that Whack-a-Mole’s “argument” was pretty special ed. See posts from John Mace, Maeglin, and Jimmy Chitwood.
Captain Amazing was on the other side from you and he agrees as well, AFAICT.
The knee-jerks are never going to admit they’re wrong, but this is hardly surprising.
After just having read the The Associate by John Grisham I must assume that you are billing this time to your firm’s clients. I understand that you guys are expected to bill at least 80 hours a week.
Think really really hard and you’ll realize why he carved out an exception for gambling away tons of money in his pantheon of moral virtues.
Given your apparent admiration for him and your own gambling, it’s little wonder you keep bringing up the subject ad nauseum (as recently as within the last few months) to harangue us on how unfair we’ve been.
The only reason I mentioned it here is that you were opining (or avering, it’s hard to tell the difference) about how willing you are to concede when you’re wrong.
As for DeLay, he used to be my congressman (gag), he leaves behind a sleazy legacy, and I don’t particularly care what your gripes with other posters in that thread were. It’s nice that you get to board your moral high horse and remind us how fair-minded you are. :dubious:
